Medical examiner identifies wildfire victims

Officials with the San Diego County medical examiner's office
announced Friday they had identified the bodies of four wildfire
victims whose remains were found Oct. 25 in a ravine near
Dulzura.

They were all Mexican nationals, according to a press release
from the examiner's office.

They were: Ruben Mendez, a 32-year-old married man from
Guanajuato, Mexico; Ruben Santos Ramirez, a 28-year-old married man
from Guerrero, Mexico; Areli Peralta Ramirez, a 25-year-old single
woman from Guerrero, Mexico; and Lourdes Eugenio Tadeo, a
21-year-old single woman from Guerrero, Mexico.

The examiner determined that their deaths were caused by
injuries they suffered during the Harris fire. This group was the
last of the unidentified persons whose deaths were related to the
October wildfires in the county, according to the examiner's
office.